SIZING AND COLOUR
EXTRA SMALL, SMALL,
MEDIUM, LARGE AND EXTRA LARGE
If I had a quid for
every time someone says 'oh I never knew
they were so big' the charity would be
flourishing. Quite often folk are
thinking about whippets (the smaller
version), so we thought it might be a
good idea to dedicate a section to size
and colour. Hopefully this might give you
a better idea of the variety. Mind you we
usually find when someone is adopting a
rescue greyhound the last thing they are
bothered about is colour or sex but very
often size can be an issue.
Bitches are, of
course, always smaller but often a small
dog and a large bitch can be very
similar, below we have:-
 
Left - black and white
- bitch and dog you will see the
difference in height. On the right side
we have two males - black and white -
white and black.
Two fawn bitches, the
one of the left being extra small and the
one on the right medium sized for a
bitch.
Turk and Squibby are
examples of white and brindle dogs. Turk
on the left is a medium sized dog whereas
Squibby would be termed as small for a
male.
These are various
sized black dogs, most blacks will have a
touch of white on and will usually
prematurely grey making them appear older
than they are.
Blue and white is a
very attractive colour mix the blue
really being similar to slate grey.
 
Above we have a
selection of brindles, left we have an
red brindle - on the right what is termed
as blue brindle and then a darker
brindle.
The selection of
colours is endless , white, blue, black,
brindle, fawn, and they can all be
reversed as in brindle and white, white
and brindle according to how much of each
colour they have in them and which is the
most predominant colour.
 
Above we have two
white and fawn dogs (the hat comes as an
extra!!!). Then below is a nearly pure
white dog with just a bit of brindle on
the ear.
These are just some
photos of some of the colours and below
we list approximate sizes
FEMALES
Extra small
approximately 25 inches 63 cm
Small approximately 26
inches 66cm
Medium approximately
26.5 inches 67 cm
Large approximately 27
inches 69 cm
MALES
Extra large
approximately 29.5 inches 75 cm upwards
Large approximately 29
inches 74 cm
Medium approximately
28.5 inches 72 cm
Small approximately 27
inches 69 cm
We hope this gives you
some idea of what you are looking at with
size and colour and once again we invite
you to call at the Sanctuary so as you
can judge for yourselves
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